Sanitised browser history sparked another investigation
One of the crew who hacked TalkTalk has been ordered to hand over £400,000 after seizing control of a high-profile Instagram account following a hack on Aussie telco Telstra.
Elliott Gunton, 19, pleaded guilty to breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), Computer Misuse Act crimes and money laundering at Norwich Crown Court. He was sentenced on Friday 16 August.
The Instagram account he targeted, @adesignersmind, was used by an Australian designer to post innocuous lifestyle content – until Gunton got his hands on it. Boasting to his girlfriend in chat messages later found by police, the teenager bragged that he had "jacked a 1.2M IG". The account, meanwhile, had auto-replies configured to send abuse to people interacting with its content.
It took two weeks for the hapless designer to regain access to it, with prosecuting barrister Kevin Barry tel ..
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